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In Defence of the Faith

Joaquim Marques de Araújo, a Comissário in the Age of Inquisitional Decline

By: James E. Wadsworth

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In Defence of the Faith

Joaquim Marques de Araújo, a Comissário in the Age of Inquisitional Decline

By: James E. Wadsworth

Joaquim Marques de Araújo ardently defended the Portuguese Inquisition for fifty years, only to find himself sidelined and forgotten. In Defence of the Faith offers an insightful examination of one man's career as a comissário of the Portuguese Inquisition in Pernambuco, Brazil, from 1770 to 1820. James Wadsworth argues that as legal extensions of the inquisitors in Lisbon, the comissários played a role far superior to what their small numbers might suggest. They were not the psychopaths, fanatics, or secret network of spies so common in the popular imagination. Rather, they were the linchpins in the inquisitional system that policed the orthodoxy of the Catholic flock and qualified candidates for inquisitional office. Joaquim Marques's career demonstrates that comissários had considerable room to manoeuvre, though they remained distinctly vulnerable to social and political shifts in power. His story reveals an institution divided against itself, which proved unwilling or unable to support its men in the field. Consequently, Joaquim Marques's attempts to protect himself and the Inquisition from attack proved futile. He died a defeated man on the eve of the political, intellectual, and spiritual upheaval he had long predicted and resisted. In Defence of the Faith is a study of the decline of the old regime and the rise of a new order in late-colonial Brazil as experienced by an unbending agent of a once powerful institution that slowly collapsed during his lifetime.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773588450

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9780773588455

Agents of Orthodoxy

Honor, Status, and the Inquisition in Colonial Pernambuco, Brazil

By: James E. Wadsworth

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Agents of Orthodoxy

Honor, Status, and the Inquisition in Colonial Pernambuco, Brazil

By: James E. Wadsworth

The Portuguese Inquisition is often portrayed as a tyrannical institution that imposed itself on an unsuspecting and impotent society. The men who ran it are depicted as unprincipled bandits and ruthless spies who gleefully dragged their neighbors away to rot in dark, pestilential prisons. In this new study, based on extensive archival research, James E. Wadsworth challenges these myths by focusing on the lay and clerical officials who staffed the Inquisition in colonial Pernambuco, one of Brazil's oldest, wealthiest, and most populated colonies. He argues that the Inquisition was an integral part of colonial society and that it reflected and reinforced deeply held social and religious values that crossed the Atlantic, recreated themselves in colonial Brazil, and became powerful tools for exclusion and promotion in Brazilian society. The Inquisition successfully appropriated widely held social norms and manipulated social tensions to create and recreate its own power and prestige for almost three hundred years. It finally declined only when its capacity to socially promote its officials diminished in the late eighteenth century. Agents of Orthodoxy places the men who ran the Inquisition in historical context and demonstrates that they were often motivated by social aspirations in seeking inquisitional appointments. Beautifully written and extensively researched, this book sheds new light on a long-standing institution and its participants.

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289

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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0742569659

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9780742569652

Global Piracy

A Documentary History of Seaborne Banditry

By: James E. Wadsworth

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Global Piracy

A Documentary History of Seaborne Banditry

By: James E. Wadsworth

Many people in the western world maintain the contradictory notions that the pirates of old were romantic social bandits while their modern brethren are brutal thugs, thieves, and villains. In Global Piracy, James E. Wadsworth compiles and contextualizes a wealth of primary source documents which illustrate the global phenomenon of piracy through the eyes and voices of those who experienced it: both the pirates or privateers themselves and their victims. The book allows us to confront our stereotypes by giving us access to “real” pirates in a wide range of historical periods and global regions, from ancient Greece to modern day Nigeria, unfiltered as much as possible by authorial voice or interpretation. Global Piracy seeks neither to romanticize nor vilify pirates, but simply to understand them in the context of their times and the broader world they inhabited. Departing from run-of-the-mill narratives, it selects documents which provide new and fascinating insights into piracy around the globe. With documents introduced by contextual information, and supplemented by study questions, suggested reading lists, illustrations and maps, this book is an essential companion for anyone studying the history of piracy.

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345

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350058203

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9781350058200

A Collector's Guide to Rock, Mineral, & Fossil Localities of Utah

By: James R. Wilson

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A Collector's Guide to Rock, Mineral, & Fossil Localities of Utah

By: James R. Wilson

With the tremendous growth of population in this and neighboring states, there are more collectors than ever before and with the rapidly escalating prices for mineral and fossil specimens in the retail market, there is a great demand for displayable material. It has become necessary for professional geologists, hobby collectors, and commercial collectors to recognize each others existence and to try to work together within a framework of regulation, courtesy, and common sense so that material of scientific value is not lost and undue restrictions are not placed upon collecting. There is a continuing need for collectors and professionals to work together with resource managers and legislators to develop workable laws and rules affecting the collecting of minerals and fossils. This publication contains details information about collecting areas, divided by county to make for ease of use. Each collecting area contains information about the minerals, rocks, or fossils present, map recommendations, and other helpful tips on getting to the sites.

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156

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Utah Geological Survey

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1557913366

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9781557913364

Calamity Jane

The Woman and the Legend

By: James D. McLaird

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Calamity Jane

The Woman and the Legend

By: James D. McLaird

A meticulously researched account about how an alcoholic prostitute was transformed into a Wild West heroine is presented in this biography of Martha Canary, the woman known as Calamity Jane.

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396

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806135913

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9780806135915

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In Defence of the Faith

In Defence of the Faith

Agents of Orthodoxy

Agents of Orthodoxy

Global Piracy

Global Piracy

A Collector's Guide to Rock, Mineral, & Fossil Localities of Utah

A Collector's Guide to Rock, Mineral, & Fossil Localities of Utah

Calamity Jane

Calamity Jane

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